bogdan: thank you, sir. the issue today with the block software, and we see the problem in both our 3-i or three initial software, and in our 3-f software. has to do with stability. and just very quickly, what the pilots are seeing is, when they take off and they need to use the sensors, particularly the radar, there are some instances where the communication between the radar and the main computers in the airplane are mistimed. and that mistiming builds up little delays and eventually those delays get to be big enough where the radar shuts off. the radar will recover but it will recover and take a few minutes to regain the picture that it had. some of the other sensors experienced the same thing. that is not good. we are experiencing that kind of problem about once every four hours of flight time. we need the system to be much more stable, something on the order of every once in every eight to 10 hours. what we did when we found this problem out in the last few months is we did a root cause analysis. we kno

general bogdan, you were right. there's a perception issue both in what they are going to get and what they expect to get but there's also this perception that i've held and i use this as an example. i've been to know less than 14 hearings dealing with changes to retirement plans, taking away of the housing transferability and tri-car. when the pentagon needs to save money, they go to those programs and i always use the example that we haven't had as many of these. so i hear statements like this from one of our partners from the australian defense, keith jointer said it. he's responsible for evaluating this and he said some systems like the radar are fundamentally worse than earlier. that is not a good sign. here we are with bug fixes for the next seven years and they are looking at -- am i correct in this? they are re-evaluating their purchases on this. i go back home and talk to soldiers and they say, i just lost a gi benefit. how do i talk to them about this? i kind of feel like i'm asked to come into the play an

general bogdan: thank you for the opportunity to address the committee regarding the f-35 program my purpose is to provide you balanced assessment of where the program stands. that means i'll tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly about the program and tell you what my team is doing to improve costs on the program and meet our scheduled commitments. overall flight test, production, fielding, base standup, maintenance and support, and building a global sustainment enterprise. the program is at a pick of to the anthony: -- pivot point and is now rapidly changing, growing and accelerating. we'll be finishing our 15-year development program in late 2017 beginning to transition to a leaner, more efficient follow-on modernization program. we'll see production grow from delivering 45 aircraft in 2015 to delivering over 100 aircraft in 2018 and up to 145 aircraft by 2020. additionally, in the next four years, we'll continue to stand up 17 new operating basll